NASA faces increasing chances that it will lose priceless scientific data and discoveries that it otherwise could have gathered during a third of a year, because a glitch on Sept. 27 struck a data formatter unit on the Hubble Space Telescope, and then an attempt to switch to a backup unit failed as other glitches arose. This left NASA having to halt all science observations on Hubble except for astrometry with the Fine Guidance Sensors. Experts controlling the Hubble last…
Hubble Space Telescope Begins Shift From Stricken Unit To Backup System, But Further Glitches Force Shutdown
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